Sidney Blumenthal

The Clinton Wars

Unsurprisingly, a favorite was Air Force One. Everyone knew the dialogue, and whenever we saw Harrison Ford, playing the action hero president, kick Gary Oldman, the bad guy terrorist, out the cargo deck, we would chant in union, "Get off my plane!" 279


Once, when Mississippi suffered hurricane damage, and Senator Trent Lott was among those appealing for federal aid, the President jokingly remarked to me, "Maybe I should just tell them to go it alone, just be true to their ideology, that it's just a matter of state's rights." 311